Sona Frankova, M.D., Ph.D., works as a physician and the deputy head for clinical hepatology at the Department of Hepatogastroenterology, at the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague, Czech Republic.
She received her medicine degree in 2001 from Charles University in Prague, and in 2017, I defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled „Role of host-dependent factors in prediction of antiviral treatment response in chronic hepatitis C“. In 2024, she was appointed as an associate professor in internal medicine.
Her research interests focus on the epidemiology and the natural course of viral hepatitis, especially in specific groups of patients, e.g. solid organ transplant recipients and illicit drug users.
She has also been interested for many years in the pathophysiology of complications of liver cirrhosis, including genetic factors. She has authored and co-authored more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, as well as book chapters in the area of viral hepatitis and complications of liver cirrhosis.